New update breaks hacked iPhones
Users are reporting that a new update to Apple's iPhone is making previously unlocked iPhones unusable.
Users are reporting that a new update to Apple's iPhone is making previously unlocked iPhones unusable.
Software developer Dylan Schiemann used Steve Jobs' own words against him in a presentation on developing third-party software applications for Apple's iPhone.
Apple has offered iPhone owners instructions on how to file for the US$100 in-store credit that CEO Steve Jobs promised last week.
Local software developer John Ballinger, who could well be the first Kiwi to hack an iPhone, has confirmed an open source hack released this week works.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has responded to a flood of complaints from existing iPhone owners over Wednesday's US$200 price cut by promising the company would issue a US$100 credit to anyone who bought an iPhone before the change.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs Wednesday announced a total refresh of the company's iconic iPod music player line that includes the new iPod touch, a Wi-Fi device that's essentially an iPhone without the phone and sports a touch-screen interface.
With iPhone a closed platform, Linux gets a wide-open road for phones and other smart devices.
The iPhone has finally arrived [in the US]. Apple sold more than 500,000 of the little darlings the first weekend, and you can be sure that some of the people who bought them are at your company. They’ll want to use their iPhones for work. And no matter what Gartner says, if one of them is your CEO, you’ve got no choice.
I wish I could have peppered my recent iPhone review with phrases such as "at present", “initially”, or “for the time being”. But Apple doesn’t work that way. If I could be confident that Apple would address the major shortcomings that I saw in iPhone, such as the absence of programmability and the lack of access to even a sandboxed portion of the device’s file system, I’d have given the device a thumbs-up for its platform potential alone.
When the iPhone began shipping late last month, some users were disappointed that the mobile phone lacked support for Apple's popular iPod Disk Mode feature, which would allow the product to be used as a portable storage device.
Scientists are reverse engineering the galaxy. So why is it illegal to reverse engineer a DVD player or the iPhone?
Way, way back in 1996 I was sitting in the Computerworld New Zealand sub-editors’ area and pondering the recently delivered, and not very enthusiastically received, news that we were about to lose our Macintoshes. IDG, as we were then, was standardising on PCs.
As 6:00 pm approached on Friday, the mob in front of the Apple's flagship San Francisco store counted down the seconds as if it was New Year's Eve.
As scheduled release of Apple's iPhone on June 29 draws ever closer, some IT managers are hustling to get ready to support the new devices, anticipating the moment when the CEO walks in with one and demands to read his corporate email on it.
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